BOSTON — A bill to fortify protections under a 2022 law that shields reproductive and transgender care providers from out-of-state and federal threats received a favorable report from the Senate members of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary on Thursday.

Two Senate Democrats summoned the media Thursday for a brief availability to promote the bill, describing it as a response to threats to care that they see coming from the federal government and other states.

“The shield law is something we worked on with the attorney general starting in November, because we were really concerned about what was going to happen,” said Sen. Cindy Friedman, chair of the Steering and Policy Committee that is weighing responses to President Donald Trump’s actions. “So while Steering and Policy is looking at a number of bills that we think are reactions to what the government does... this one was prime. It was ready.”

The 2022 law was approved after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, with the aim of protecting providers and patients, including those traveling to Massachusetts for care, from out-of-state legal action.

The new bill (S 2522) restricts state agencies from cooperating with federal investigations into legally protected health care activities, requires acute care hospitals to provide abortion services when necessary to address a patient’s emergency medical condition, and prohibits insurance companies from discriminating against nonprofits that offer reproductive health and transgender care.

One section would require prescription drug labels for reproductive and transgender care to omit the name of the individual prescribing physician and instead list only the broader health care practice, “except as required by federal law,” the text of the bill says.

Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office says the language was designed to protect providers who may be mailing medication abortion out of state.

“We know that these providers are providing care across state lines, sometimes into hostile states, and certainly that puts them at great risk if their personal information is easily available and being sent across those state lines,” Allyson Slater, director of the reproductive justice unit in the attorney general’s office, said during a hearing earlier this month.

Friedman told reporters Thursday that the bill is meant to build on the 2022 law to ensure that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act is enforced in Massachusetts. EMTALA is a federal law that requires emergency departments to provide care to anyone who presents with an emergency medical condition, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.

“It’s making sure the providers are protected in the terms that when they’re providing legal care in Massachusetts, that their names can’t be tracked on the medicine, or the databases can’t be searched so their names come up as providers of legally provided care in Massachusetts, including midwives... attorneys are protected,” Friedman said.

She added that the bill is meant to protect Massachusetts “as we move along and see what the federal government and other states are doing to try and impose their laws on us.”

Only Senate members of the joint committee voted on the bill, committee chair Sen. Lydia Edwards confirmed. All five Senate members of the committee voted to report it favorably: Sens. Liz Miranda, Jamie Eldridge, Patrick O’Connor, Pat Jehlen and John Velis. Edwards did not participate in the poll, as she recommended the bill in her power as the committee chair, her staff said.

The voting opened on Monday and closed on Tuesday at 5 p.m., Edwards’ office disclosed on Wednesday.

After a private caucus with Senate Democrats, Friedman told reporters that she’s kept her House co-chair of the Committee on Health Care Financing, Rep. John Lawn, “in the loop throughout this whole process.”

“We’ve had great conversations,” Edwards said. “We heard nothing but recommitment, over recommitment, over recommitment from our House members about how protecting the access to abortion care, about how making sure that gender affirming care are things that are continually accessible and affordable in the commonwealth.”

Asked when the Senate would take up the bill for a floor vote, Friedman said, “We’re figuring that out now.”

“We’re pushing to do it in the fairly near future,” she said. “We got some budgets, we’ve got some supps and stuff. So I think it’s figuring out what the schedule is.”

The Senate plans a session next Wednesday to consider a $532 million spending bil